Jogger ‘water break’

New pre-slay vid

New video suggests unarmed Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery may have been merely getting a drink of water when he was spotted entering a construction site minutes before he was shot dead, the property owner’s lawyer said Friday.

Attorney Elizabeth Graddy made the suggestion based on newly released security camera footage showing a man believed to be Arbery, 25, enter the under-construction home on at least five separate occasions since last fall, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Graddy, who represents property owner Larry English, said there were two water faucets on the site — one at the rear of the house and one on the side.

Contrary to claims by accused father-son killers Gregory and Travis McMichael, Arbery may have been in the habit of stopping at the site during jogs to take a drink — not because he was a prowler or burglar.

“Although these water sources do not appear within any of the cameras’ frames, the young man moves to and from their locations,” Graddy told the Journal-Constitution.

The footage shows no evidence of theft, and nothing was ever reported missing from the property, according to the newspaper.

The McMichaels have told police they chased Arbery down because they believed he was a burglar, and then the son shot him in a struggle over a shotgun.

In another twist Friday, an Atlanta television station reported that the original viral video of the shooting had been leaked to the press two months after the Feb. 23 shooting at the request of the elder McMichael.

The ex-cop leaked the clip to a local radio station in the mistaken belief that it would ease rising racial tensions in the community, WSB-TV reported.

Arbery was black, and the McMichaels are white.

Alan Tucker, a Brunswick attorney who had informally consulted with the suspects, told the station he helped Gregory McMichael forward the video because “I didn’t want the neighborhood to become another Ferguson,” a reference to the Missouri town where the 2014 fatal shooting of black teen Michael Brown by a white cop sparked unrest.